

The endings are the same for -ar, -er and -ir verbs. – Si nosotros hubiésemos estado allí, le habríamos ayudado. 2 The conditional tense - formation The conditional tense is formed by adding the conditional endings to the infinitive.


(They would have told her something, if they had seen her.) For the simple conditional tense, rather than combining two verbs, in Spanish you simply conjugate the main verb to form el condicional (also called el. – Le habrían dicho algo si la hubieran visto. In English, we often form the conditional by using one of the following verbs in the conditional form + another verb: can > could + go shall > should + be want > would + like. The conditional perfect is formed by using the conditional forms of the helping verb haber with the past (or passive) participle: Their endings are regular, but their stems change in the same way they change in the future tense: decir The endings are consistent for -ar, -ir, and -er verbs. The most common verbs that are irregular in the future tense are also irregular in the conditional tense. – Vivir (to live ): Viviríamos en París si pudiésemos. The mood that weve dealt with so far is the indicative which. – Beber (to drink ): ❻eber ías conmigo un vaso de vino? (Would you drink a glass of wine with me?) Technically the conditional (see future & conditional conjugations) is a mood, not a tense. (I would sing with you if I knew the song.) – Cantar (to sing): Cantar ía contigo si supiese la canción. We use the same stem as for some other tenses, the infinitive, and the same endings as for the imperfect of -er and -ir verbs (-ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían). It is very connected to the future tense, that´s why we call it both condicional and futuro hipotético (hypothetical future). It does not only refer to a concrete moment in time (past, present or future), but it is used to express probability, possibility, wonder or conjecture. The conditional tense is one of the most complicated tenses in Spanish.
